Barristers | Inquests & Public Inquiries

John Cooper KC
Year of Call: 1985

John Cooper KC specialises in the fields of Safety and Environmental Regulatory work. He has appeared as an expert in this area in commercial litigation in the USA and has been involved in many of the...

James Ageros KC
Year of Call: 1990

James Ageros KC practises exclusively in the field of health & safety enforcement, within a number of different sectors. He is a vastly experienced, jury savvy and technically gifted regulatory...

James Maxwell-Scott KC
Year of Call: 1995

James is a specialist in public inquiries, inquests and criminal regulatory law. He is Vice Chair of the Health and Safety Lawyers Association. He has been Leading Counsel representing the Royal...

Dominic Kay KC
Year of Call: 1997

Dominic Kay KC is a specialist regulatory law practitioner and is one of a very small number of King’s Counsel to be listed by the legal directories as a leading individual in each of his three...

Simon Antrobus KC
Year of Call: 1995

Simon has over 25 years’ of experience as one of the leading barristers in this field of criminal regulatory law. Together with John Cooper KC, he set up the criminal regulatory team within Crown...

Farrah Mauladad KC
Year of Call: 1999

Farrah is a leading expert in clinical negligence, personal injury, healthcare regulatory law, and product liability. Known for her extensive courtroom experience, she is frequently sought after for...

Richard Whitehall KC
Year of Call: 1998

Personal Injury Richard specialises in complex and high-value personal injury cases. He has a very busy practice, representing Claimants and Defendants. He has been instructed for many years on...

Mark Balysz KC
Year of Call: 1995

Mark Balysz KC has been for many years one of the leading and most effective advocates in defending high profile cases of corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter, as well as complex...

Catherine Foster
Year of Call: 1986

Catherine practices in the areas of general personal injury, disease litigation, occupational stress, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, modern slavery, professional negligence, product...

Peter Morton
Year of Call: 1988

Though he has acted for both Claimants and Defendant in the past, Peter Morton’s practice is now entirely for Defendants and consists of industrial disease litigation, catastrophic injury cases,...

Malcolm Galloway
Year of Call: 1992

Malcolm Galloway, described by the directories as ‘a great jury advocate, who is very, very personable and extremely sharp’ is an accomplished jury advocate practicing in regulatory law. He is...

Mark Armitage
Year of Call: 1999

Mark Armitage specialises in personal injury, industrial disease and inquest work. His industrial disease practice focuses on asbestos litigation; asthma claims; cancer; COSHH claims; dermatitis;...

Harry Vann
Year of Call: 2003

Harry joined Chambers in 2004 after successful completion of his pupillage.  After initially practising in Personal Injury, he joined the Criminal Regulatory and Environmental team in 2008 and has...

Rosanna Hellebronth
Year of Call: 2004

Rosanna joined Chambers on successful completion of her pupillage in 2005 and specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, industrial disease and motor insurance fraud. In addition to...

Sandesh Singh
Year of Call: 2004

Sandesh Singh specialises in criminal regulatory law, inquests, consumer law and professional disciplinary law. He is known for his thorough preparation, attention to detail and incisive advocacy. ...

Peter Houghton
Year of Call: 2005

Peter is an experienced junior with a thriving practice focussing on group litigation, personal injury claims, industrial disease matters and associated areas of work. He has appeared in several...

Julia Kendrick
Year of Call: 2005

Julia Kendrick specialises in criminal regulatory law, with particular expertise in health and safety, inquests, fire safety, consumer law, environmental law, food safety and road traffic offences....

David Myhill
Year of Call: 2006

David has a specialist practice focussing on disputes in the fields of Product Liability, Insurance, Professional (including Clinical) Negligence and Property Damage. Whilst David is accomplished...

Mike Atkins
Year of Call: 2006

Mike Atkins is a leading junior in the field of criminal regulatory law, with particular expertise in Manslaughter, Health & Safety, Inquests, Fire Safety, Food Safety, Product Safety, Consumer...

Nadia Whittaker
Year of Call: 2007

Nadia is an established clinical negligence and personal injury practitioner, ranked by The Legal 500 as Leading Junior, in clinical negligence, at the London Bar.   She acts in catastrophic cases...

Siobhan Lambertsen
Year of Call: 2007

Siobhan Lambertsen practices in the areas of personal injury, industrial disease and PI fraud. She acts predominantly for Defendants and iis a robust advocate with a tough cross-examination style....

Helen Pagett
Year of Call: 2008

Helen Pagett is not accepting instructions at present.

Gemma Witherington
Year of Call: 2008

For a number of years, Gemma has been recommended as a leading junior by Legal 500. She specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, insurance fraud, professional negligence, costs and...

Rory Holmes
Year of Call: 2009

Rory has specialised in PI and associated areas of work over the past 15 years. He is a senior Junior with a caseload which overlaps a number of Chambers’ specialisms. He is instructed to handle...

Simon O’Dwyer
Year of Call: 2010

Simon is a specialist personal injury barrister who practises exclusively in multi-track personal injury work acting for both claimants and defendants; undertaking the full spectrum of personal injury...

Lucy Wright
Year of Call: 2011

Lucy Wright specialises in criminal regulatory law with a focus on health and safety, inquests and inquiries. Lucy has a reputation as an impressive trial advocate, adept with legal argument and...

Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013

Jack has a specialist criminal regulatory law, inquests and public inquiries, and personal injury practice. His expertise is recognised by rankings in the major legal directories, and he was appointed...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

Adam Taylor specialises in sport and international arbitration, professional negligence, property damage, personal injury, insurance fraud, and inquests. Adam first practised at Crown Office...

Katie Sage
Year of Call: 2014

Katie is an established criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries practitioner and is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners in these areas. She has experience acting in criminal...

Katie Ayres
Year of Call: 2014

Katie Ayres practices in the areas of local authority liability, abuse law, clinical and professional negligence, insurance, product liability and property damage. She is recognised as a Rising Star...

Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016

Juliet Stevens is a Leading Junior with extensive trial experience. She has a broad practice with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability, professional...

Meredith Daniel
Year of Call: 2017

Meredith has a broad practice with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests and inquiries, and health and safety. In her civil practice Meredith regularly appears in...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish has developed a successful practice across Chambers’ core areas, particularly in commercial disputes, insurance, professional negligence, inquests and inquiries, property damage, and product...

Annie Mackley
Year of Call: 2021

Annie accepts instructions across all Chambers’ core areas, with a particular interest in clinical negligence, personal injury, professional negligence, health and safety, and inquests and...

Sophie Ashford
Year of Call: 2021

Sophie has a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas with an emphasis on commercial litigation, insurance law, sports law, property damage and inquests. Prior to joining Chambers,...

William Lacey
Year of Call: 2022

William Lacey became a member of Chambers in 2023 on successful completion of his pupillage. He accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance &...

Susanne Tanner KC (Scot)
Year of Call: 2000 (Scot); 2019 (E&W)

Susanne is an experienced Scottish silk with a wide practice encompassing civil and criminal work. She is a highly skilled litigator both at first instance and in appellate matters. She called to the...